Úloha veľkoplošnej štátom podporovanej elektrifikácie vo vývoji cien elektrickej energie na Slovensku v medzivojnovom období
The role of large-scale state-supported electrification in the development of electricity prices in Slovakia in the interwar period

Summary/Abstract: Until 1918, the electrification process in today‘s territory of Slovakia lagged behind thedevelopment in the most advanced countries, as well as in the western part of the HabsburgMonarchy. Electrification was located in the initial, so-called local, development phase. Thismeans that it was limited only to more important urban settlements with power plants thatsupplied energy to the immediate surroundings. After 1918, in the conditions of interwarCzechoslovakia, other small power plants were established in cities and in the countryside underindividual, municipal or joint-stock ownership. Uneconomical operation and high electricityprices were characteristic of these enterprises. The situation began to change when, on the basisof the so-called Electrification Act of 1919, regional power plants were founded with statesupport, whose task was the systematic electrification of a precisely defined region. Five of these regional enterprises were established in Slovakia for western, northwestern, central, southern and eastern Slovakia. Regional enterprises could use various forms of support from the state and legislative benefits. After overcoming the initial difficulties, they developed their activity and gradually electrified individual parts of Slovakia. At the same time, they reduced the prices of electricity for lighting and propulsion, which made it possible to supply energy to wider sections of the population and manufacturing enterprises of various industries in a large area.

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